Comments by "Stephen Jenkins" (@stephenjenkins7971) on "How Empires Fall and Why the US is Next" video.

@Ethanol_3726 What a braindead claim. Having a deficit never meant that at all; the US had over a 100% debt-to-GDP ratio at the time when it was at its wealthiest; post-W W 2. That by itself doesn't mean anyhing, especially when every other nation has similar issues. China's, for example, has been calculated to be around 200% debt-to-GDP, and nobody is claiming that they are going to "c o l l a p s e" from that. You guys have zero clue about what you're talking about.
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@emily7195 It literally doesn't. By this logic, everything is collapsing everywhere. You can find stories like this during the time when the US was rising dramatically into its zenith, genius.
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@lydiathompson8618 Then I guess the rest of the world is going to collapse since its also "trending towards it" as well? Sorry, but the grandpas like you always making this prediction are always wrong for a reason.
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@Ethanol_3726 Your argument didn't have nuance, that's kinda my point. It also depends on literally braindead logic to boot. EVERY NATION IS FACING DEFICIT ISSUES, it's not the end of the world, as it actually depends a lot on how wealthy a nation is so that they can deal with the debt. Also, the petrodollar has been a meme for decades now; its been defunct. It doesn't exist. The USD is maintained by the US' power and economy, and can probably be maintained for up to the US having around 500% debt-to-GDP. For God's sakes, Japan has 300% debt-to-GDP and isn't "c o l l a p s i n g", let alone its currency adoption rate. The only way for the USD to stop being used like that is for its value to collapse. And BRICS is a complete joke, and is never going to "barter" like that without collapsing themselves.
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LMAO. You people have been predicting that for decades now, and you're always wrong. In reality, its just what you hope for in regards to your s i c k politics
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@sumomaster5585 You say that as if the ME hasn't done it to themselves. Their human rights are amongst the worst in the world, so their comeuppance was obvious. Multiple peoples there that aren't the majority Arb population look to the US for support for a reason. The Arbs are just bitter because they supported the wrong side. You act as if Gaza was some soft power defeat, but hte US emerged stronger because the Gaza has shown how massively hypocritical that side was and how it was fed and backed by Iran, Syria, and Russia. The same powers that left 500k gen oc ide in Syria. And you're also full cap too. The Arb world never looked up to the West. It always saw it as the "e n e m y". The US tried to align with them, but they chose the Soviets out of h a t e against the West overall. They got their just desserts, in the end.
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@noellewest4347 Wrong. China talks about anti-imperialism while eagerly stealing land and territory from others and horribly repress its min or ity population. That is just the tip of the iceberg. In fact, in terms of hypocrisy, the US is among the few that tries to walk the walk.
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True. And Americans are not also shocked at just how quickly the living standards of other countries are collapsing. Housing crisis, collapsing demographics, collapsing wages, slowing economies, brain drain. Even with a poor healthcare system, the US is still utterly overwhelming its competitors in terms of living standards, barring a few exceptions like the Nordic states. Even Canada is biting the dust.
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@odonnelly46 And? Is that supposed to change anything?
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@emekawilliams4333 What an impressively trashy take. Most linguists would be laughing at u.
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@Pipes570 You guys ar enuts if you think the US will inva de Canada lol. And culture wars have nothing to do with "delaying" anything. This thought experiment is pure copium by some 3rd worlders.
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@kerry-j4m The US didn't build that base, most US bases outside of the MENA, Europe, and East Asia are just bases loaned to the US by the locals.
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@quazwasd4062 That makes no sense considering how it's competitors are declining far faster economically.
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@Thespeedrap It has everything to do OP. OP is like so many anti-Muricans; whining about US hypocrisy while ignoring the ultimate hypocrisy elsewhere.
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@erdelegy Except those same people meddle in the affairs of others too, so they are far more bitter that you stop them rather than you interfered lmao
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@humanitarianly Pro pa ganda. Iran is the one that caused the hor ror in Yemen. They co uped the last government with their proxies and conflict erupted ever since. You are proving your hypo cr isy by not mentioning the one that actually sparked that conflict. If you think the US was bad for Latam co ups; then you must properly put the fault to Iran, not the US.
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@RunAw_ A free world is impossible, since a lot of those "revolutions" will seek to dominate and spread their beliefs by force. Like always.
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@coolioso808 He was a clown, though. Since his entire logic ignores the rest of the world, and how they are collapsing far faster than the US could ever dream of LMAO
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@coolioso808 Yeah. And he was a 🤡 whining about the current system while ignoring its massive benefits and only looking at its negatives. He also ignored the state of the world at the time, and his words echo how utterly ig no rant he was. TLDR; anyone taking him seriously is rightfully treated as a f o o l
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@WoodstockG54 Genius. Its not like the greatest empires and countries in human history didn't have billionaire influence in their governments or anything...oh wait... Seriously, by your metric; every other "empire" and country is collapsing in itself faster than the US ever could.
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@JM-zy4pp Oh yes, such a massive success that the explosion in wealth and influence occurred during Stalin's reign and before that; everything was still horrific by any standard. So no, it was a massive failure, even including Stalin due to the sheer number of people buried to reach it.
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@Joey-ct8bm True. That being said, every other major nation is collapsing far faster than the US ever could. Which means that this is mostly just a wish fulfilment on the part of this video maker lol
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@f-86zoomer37 1) The US is still growing quickly and its issues pales compared to all of its contemporaries 2) A collapse would lead to the extreme rise of neo-colonialism, since the US is the only one trying to limit such things to begin with. Everyone else doesn't care, and exacerbates the issue. Russia is literally taking gold from Sudan and China is doing similar 3) At least be honest that this is just wish fulfilment, not any sort of humanist goal on your part lol
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@user-jt3dw6vv4x China's living standards have been stagnating for a few years now, so its not rising any longer. The same criticisms lobbied at the US is far FAR worse in China. India is still growing relatively quickly though.
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@markrobby7136 Copium lol. Some US cities have stagnated, but others have risen from the ashes. Chicago is rising quickly, for example.
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@markrobby7136 Yeah. I know it must burn you inside to know that US cities aren't collapsing lol
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@user-jt3dw6vv4x Statistically speaking, they are stagnating, not rising. Seeing things with your eyes doesn't take the whole picture. Most people don't exactly visit the pov erty-stricken lands outside of China's cities.
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@gwang3103 Wrong. China far surpasses the US in this field; seriously, many nations have centuries acting far worse than the US ever has. But so does most of the world, anyway. At least amongst major nations.
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@KlaxontheImpailr Its...not eerie at all. People make weird predictions all the time, and the "US collapsing LOL" crowd have been predicting that for decades now. All to no avail.
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Rough. But that really has nothing to do with a "collapse of an empire" scenario. Especially when the US has always had issues like that before.
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@carival Yeah, except that its total bull. US workers are nowhere near exploited enough for that kind of loss of faith. Its going to take a LOT LOT more loss of economic power for that kind of c o l l a p s e. Again, with their logic, most of the world are c o l l a p s i n g as we speak. Especially China, whose workers have far far less than US workers. Its an intentionally vague and nonsense metric that ignores the rest of the world entirely, acting like the US is the only country in existence having this issue.
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@carival Yeah, and its bunk. Mostly because it ignores how 99% of the planet has far bigger issues with worker expl oi ta tion than the US does, especially China, and they aren't on the verge of "c o l l a p s e" because it takes a LOT to actually reach that point.
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@kellywalker1664 Again, the tools that watch this stuff without even thinking about it conveniently forget how just because things are worse, that is nowhere near to being close to on the verge of c o l l a p s e, genius. God, nobody on this channel has a positive IQ, I swear.
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@chicanoinparadise Yeah. And the place you escaped to is co ll ap sing faster than the US is lmao
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@AirinC-w4r The US is hardly an e*pire to begin with, as most of the logic used about it can implicate almost every other nation. Having bases beyond their borders is what every major nation has. And we@lth ine*uality is not the main focal point; the main focal point is the status of those not of the 1%. They are smarting currently, but they are still the majority and doing moderately well. And using Rome as a contrast is just laughable.
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@lez2884 In almost all of those countries, Black Americans do better in the US than there. The exception being Denmark, last I checked. So this is pure cap.
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@texasvanity The US Black experience is well-known. But it reveals how ig no rant so many are about it. Even the worst US Black experience was leagues better than what most min or ity groups suffered in other lands. Most faced po groms or gen oc ides. That doesn't make it easier for them, but they most assuredly had it better than most of their counterparts elsewhere.
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@danielepp3113 You didn't make an argument to begin with 🤡
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Great. Does that have anything to do with this topic? Are there countries that don't do that, proving why the US is "collapsing"? Or is this just an inane claim amongst many to try and sound profound in this anti-Murican crusade?
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